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Cuba has chosen First Vice-President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, 57, as sole candidate to succeed Raul Castro as president of Cuba, the centrepiece of an effort to ensure the country’s single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it. The virtually certain […]

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US President Donald Trump has warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack, declaring that missiles “will be coming” and lambasting Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters news agency reports. Trump was reacting […]

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MONDAY, MARCH 19 More than 70 homes and other buildings are feared to have been destroyed in and around the town of Tathra, on the New South Wales south coast, the Rural Fire Service (RFS) reported. It is believed four people in […]

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Britain is to kick out 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in England that Prime Minister Theresa May has blamed on Moscow. Ms May pointed the finger […]

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Police believe a nerve agent was used to deliberately poison a former Russian double agent and his daughter, Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer says, in a case that threatens to further damage London’s ties with Moscow, according to a report on ABC news. Sergei Skripal, once […]